Ukrainian Music Teacher MIRAB BABAIAN at Canadian International School Allegedly Rips Off Woman for $8,000

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Anthony's Weiner wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 9:09 am
Mishmash wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 8:57 am
SternAAlbifrons wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 8:21 am I don't mean to be difficult, but....

The teacher planning to profit from selling instruments to the school that employs him is almost certainly guilty of unethical and dishonest behaviour. You cannot imagine any school agreeing to that.
My "difficult" question is - Is the woman who was "ripped off" also culpable?
It's a really valid point bro...

Making a profit is reasonable and not against the law - one of the purposes of business.

She did in fact loan the money to the school, through him... with a reasonable expectation of reward

I agree - It's questionable ethics and certainly he abused his position if not declaring personal gain.

I wonder if the school got their instruments and paid or if the "fiddler" scammed the lot..

Either way - I doubt I'll stand him a beer - shady and a toss-pot in the video.

The immigration office is open and welcoming.
Unless she has a loan agreement with the school or he is authorized to borrow in the school's name and had their consent, the school has nothing to do with it. It appears the Ukranian figured why settle for the margin between what he paid and what he sold the instruments for when he could get someone else t pay and keep the whole amount.
Thanks bro- my poor wording - she was paying for a shipment - the school was the final customer. She fronted the money.

I'm still wondering whether he scammed everything and the school got no instruments, or he kept the schools payments plus whatever profits (if any).

if he didn't deliver the instruments or just made it all up using the school's name then he is guilty of more than just failure to repay.
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Anthony's Weiner wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 9:09 am Ukranian figured why settle for the margin between what he paid and what he sold the instruments for when he could get someone else t pay and keep the whole amount.
Then why would he sign those contracts? If I was defrauding somebody I wouldn't thumbprint a smoking gun saying I did so. That's stupid.

His fine for the overstay should be $2840 today, excluding the fines for working on the wrong visa type and without work permit. CIS is going to need a new musician and this guy needs some good legs.

What a shit show.
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fax wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 9:24 am
Anthony's Weiner wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 9:09 am Ukranian figured why settle for the margin between what he paid and what he sold the instruments for when he could get someone else t pay and keep the whole amount.
Then why would he sign those contracts? If I was defrauding somebody I wouldn't thumbprint a smoking gun saying I did so. That's stupid.

His fine for the overstay should be $2840 today, excluding the fines for working on the wrong visa type and without work permit. CIS is going to need a new musician and this guy needs some good legs.

What a shit show.
I guess the freeloading fiddler is off your gig list fax - mine too :lol:
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PIEMAN wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 4:15 am All schools employ non work permit barangs.They just need teachers even i could be one.
There will be a vacancy shortly at CIS - or so i hear.

Room for a pie stall there also if you play your cards right.
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Mishmash wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 9:29 am I guess the freeloading fiddler is off your gig list fax - mine too :lol:
You're into construction, surely you know that stretch of road between Prince and CIS shown in the video?

CIS, Koh Pich and Prince security guards are stationed there. In the video, Prince security guards refuse him entry while he is being physically and verbally assaulted by a woman while the gay camera man says "don't toucchhh meee, don't touccchhhhh meee". The woman talks like she has been hanging around Nigerians. She's got that lingo. "And then you unfriend my sister also!" The terrible accusations are hailing on the man outside his workplace. Did he unfriend somebody? Shit.

Those security guards stationed by Koh Pich and CIS in particular, who are they there to protect? I can understand that Prince guards turned him away but where are the CIS guards? Don't they make it their business that their staff is being assaulted? Who are they hired to protect?

WTF?
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I agree the guy is a total POS. I would think that by now the school is aware of what he has done and can t be happy that his scam used their reputation as the "bona fides". The Ukranian could have paid his overstay and F ed off to Vietnam and taught there, pretty hard to sue someone for fraud if you don t know where they are. The problem with a lot of scammers is they don t know when to say " time to move along" , I figure a lot of grifters have such a high opinion of their own intelligence they forget all they have to do is find someone trusting or less intelligent than themselves for a mark. The current POTUS is a good example of that.
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fax wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 9:37 am
Mishmash wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 9:29 am I guess the freeloading fiddler is off your gig list fax - mine too :lol:
You're into construction, surely you know that stretch of road between Prince and CIS shown in the video?

CIS, Koh Pich and Prince security guards are stationed there. In the video, Prince security guards refuse him entry while he is being physically and verbally assaulted by a woman while the gay camera man says "don't toucchhh meee, don't touccchhhhh meee". The woman talks like she has been hanging around Nigerians. She's got that lingo. "And then you unfriend my sister also!" The terrible accusations are hailing on the man outside his workplace. Did he unfriend somebody? Shit.

Those security guards stationed by Koh Pich and CIS in particular, who are they there to protect? I can understand that Prince guards turned him away but where are the CIS guards? Don't they make it their business that their staff is being assaulted? Who are they hired to protect?

WTF?
:lol:

Yeah - i know the new place on koh pich- I was too late to bid for the CCTV and Data Network.

Terrible accusations raining down on him for sure - bring in Judge Judy.

As for CIS security - I won't be parking there anytime soon
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She recently sent these screenshots to us, and according to him, he left Cambodia AFTER he received the money from her, and then reentered Cambodia again. If any of that is true, maybe he spent some of the money on his visa overstay fees, exited, and then reentered with a new visa on arrival.

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She also confirmed that she saw him at work on September 10, and the video where she confronts him was on September 12.

And also Mirab Babaian's ID card, which looks to be from Canadian International School of Phnom Penh:

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"1. Not to make any noise, problem from now on
2. Come back only with money that I owe you"

So he turned up at her residence "making noise, problem" and had to sign a statement promising to not do it again. What's the story here?

She left $200 in her kitchen for him to pick up while she was not there. Why did he have access to her kitchen? Did he have keys to her residence? Why? That is not a normal loanshark relationship. What was their relationship? Why has this information been omitted from the story telling?

"She also confirmed that she saw him at work on September 10, and the video where she confronts him was on September 12."

Did she not see him at work on September 12? The video where she confronts him on September 12 is recorded outside CIS as he is leaving work trying to go to Prince supermarket across the road but is refused entry by Prince security.

Are they ex boyfriend and girlfriend? Were they living together as a couple? Why is he calling her "sister"?

Under which agreement is she demanding interest? What is the interest of this loan? Is it a legal loan? Where is the contract? What credibility do they have bringing this case in front of a judge? Loanshark loans are illegal in Cambodia. What about that $150 interest for uncle and yada yada? Are they gangsters? Is it a real uncle or an "uncle", a connection with strings to pull? Is it a threat?

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The plot thickens.

The screenshots say he was outside PP not Cambodia, but I guess the lady knows better

The written letter of Aug 2019 still quotes his old expired visa.

Either way - it's a court case - only they can decide.

I doubt anyone can help the lady except a lawyer
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